Conference Library

AHIC 2012 is providing a reading list for the conference participants! These documents and articles are related to theme of the conference. We hope that the participants will find these documents interesting and informative and most importantly these reports will stimulate discussion at the conference.

Integrated Diagnostics - Digital Pathology

• Digital Pathology: A New Frontier in Canadian Healthcare
  
  GE Healthcare Pathology Innovation Centre of Excellence (PICOE)
  January 2012
  
  "The potential of digital pathology to benefit Canadian healthcare (and most importantly, Canadian patients) has barely begun to be realized. Regional, provincial or national digital networks may make cross-country consultation a regular event, bringing the advantages of quality of care, better access, greater efficiency and cost savings to communities across Canada. These considerable benefits, however, may be only the beginning."

Transforming Health Care: Evidence, Pragmatism and Politics

• Why system inertia makes health reform so difficult
  
  Enrico Coiera, Director, Centre for Health Informatics
  Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales
  BMJ 2011;342:d3693
  
  "Health systems around the world are struggling to find effective ways to make clinical practice safer, more effective, and evidence based. Professor Enrico Coiera argues that the reason may be system inertia and looks to biology for solutions."



• Therapy or Surgery? A Prescription for Canada’s Health System
  
  Don Drummond, Matthews Fellow in Global Public Policy, Queen's University
  Benefactors Lecture, C.D. Howe Institute, 2011
  
  "Mr. Drummond, Senior Fellow at the Institute and the Matthews Fellow in Global Public Policy at Queen’s University, provides a diagnosis, prognosis and prescription for reform of the healthcare system, with a focus on Ontario."



• Fiscal Sustainability & The Transformation of Canada's Healthcare System
  
  Will Falk, Matthew Mendelsohn and Josh Hjartarson, with Alex Stoutley
  Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, University of Toronto. October, 2011
  
  "This report is intended to help facilitate informed, strategic, long-term decision making in healthcare in Canada, and is part of the Shifting Gears series."



• Can computerized clinical decision support systems improve practitioners’ diagnostic test ordering behavior? A decision-maker-researcher partnership systematic review
  
  Pavel Roshanov et. al., McMaster University
  Implementation Science 2011, 6:88



• Computerized clinical decision support systems for chronic disease management: A decisionmaker-researcher partnership systematic review
  
  Pavel Roshanov et. al., McMaster University
  Implementation Science 2011, 6:92
   

Redefining Value and Success with Smarter Analytics

• The value of analytics in healthcare: From insights to outcomes. Executive Summary


• The value of analytics in healthcare: From insights to outcomes. Executive Report
  
  IBM Institute for Business Value
  IBM Global Business Services
  January 2012
  
  "Healthcare organizations around the world are challenged by pressures to reduce costs, improve coordination and outcomes, provide more with less and be more patient centric. Yet, at the same time, evidence is mounting that the industry is increasingly challenged by entrenched inefficiencies and suboptimal clinical outcomes. Building analytics competency can help these organizations harness “big data” to create actionable insights, set their future vision, improve outcomes and reduce time to value."



• Redefining Value and Success in Healthcare: Charting the path to the future
  
  IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences Though Leadership
  February 2012
  
  Highlights of this Report: "Transformation in the industry is being driven by a fundamental shift in expectations of all stakeholders. Healthcare organizations will need to develop new competencies to redefine value for their stakeholders. As value becomes understood as a measure of health and well being, organizations that respond to deliver outcomes will succeed."



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